High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Gipsy (not Gypsy) was a Gipsy-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy . She was launched by Fairfield on the 9th of March 1897 and served in home waters through World War I. She destroyed U-48, a U boat which had foundered on the Goodwin Sands on 24 November 1917. She was sold off in 1921.